XFX has added another member to its Radeon GCN portfolio and this time it’s a single slot, half size Radeon HD 7730 card. It is based on 28nm Carpe Verde silicon and this is one of the thinner ones that will find its way into HTPCs that wants some extra power.

The company has two models a 1GB DDR5 Model (FX-773A-ZNJX) featuring Dual-Link DVI-D, HDMI and VGA connection, with 800Mhz core clock and a 4.5GHz Memory as well as the 2GB DDR3 model (FX-773A-CNFX) also features Dual Link DVI-D, HDMI and VGA outputs, with a 800Mhz core clock and 1.3GHz memory clock.

Both cards feature XFX Patented Duratec IP-5X Dust free cooling fan and XFX Ghost thermal technology. Both cards are low profile that will put some smiles into HTPC owners that wants a newer core that still stays within the reasonable power consumption.

The Radeon HD 7730 is currently quite a rare card on the market and we saw some Sapphire and MSI cards shipping. MSI has low profile cards with 1GB GDDR3 that clearly stays slower than the XFX offering. The card should be available shortly and should end up below £70 including VAT for the UK and below €70 in EU markets with VAT, but we haven’t received the final pricing. This is what the card looks like.

Sapphire has officially launched two new members of the Radeon HD 7700 line, the HD 7730 graphics card with 1GB and 2GB of memory.

Both HD 7730 are based on the same GCN (Graphics Core Next) 28nm GPU architecture and feature 384 stream processors and either 1GB or 2GB of memory paired up with a 128-bit memory interface. The GPU on both cards is clocked at 800MHz. The 1GB model is equipped with DDR5 memory clocked at 4500MHz, while the 2GB model comes with DDR3 memory clocked at 1800MHz (3600MHz effective). Both models are also equipped with DVI, HDMI and VGA outputs with support for simultaneous display on two monitors.

Unfortunately, Sapphire did not announce precise price for these two new cards but a quick check at our favorite price search engine shows them both listed at around €70 depending on the retailer/e-tailer.

Someone at MSI probably got a few angry calls from AMD this morning, after an MSI HD 7730 card was leaked on Coolaler forums.

It is an entry level card, no bells and whistles. It packs 384 to 512 stream processors, a core clock of 800MHz, 1GB of memory clocked at 1125MHz and a 128-bit memory bus. It sounds like the slowest and cheapest HD 77xx product to date.

However, some details are still lacking. It is probably a crippled Bonaire, but we don’t know for sure yet. We don’t know the price, either.

The card was benchmarked and it seems to end up about 30+ percent faster than the HD 6670. We still don’t know how it stacks up against low end Nvidia cards, such as the GT 640.